New Colleagues & One IT STARS 2019-20

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On Oct. 22, the Office of the CIO and IT Leadership Group will be hosting our 6th annual One IT Staff Appreciation event We’ve Got Game: Thanks to You (rsvp here). We will join together to celebrate YOU for bringing serious game to everything you do and our collective accomplishments in supporting campus, especially during this pandemic. Since March, we have all been living in very challenging times even beyond COVID-19, with repeated social injustice issues, continued political unrest, wildfires leading to smoke and poor air quality, and more. For your continued dedication and hard work despite these challenges, we thank you. You are all rock stars and have demonstrated incredible examples of collaboration and innovation this past year  our One IT community in action! 

Examples of this stellar work shines through with Bruce Lorenzen (IST - Telecom) and Lois Wareham (IT Client Services) being nominated directly by their staff and recognized for their leadership winning the Excellence in Management awardIn Research, Teaching and Learning, the Berkeley Online Advising (BOA) project and implementation team received a Sautter Award Honorable Mention for their work that unifies student data from multiple campus services and provides advisors with new tools to access information that supports student success.

This appreciation event as also an opportunity to welcome new staff and celebrate STAR recipients. Below (and during our event on Oct. 22) you can meet the 69 new colleagues who have joined our One IT family since last October. The UC Staff Appreciation and Recognition (STAR) program provides us an opportunity to acknowledge and reward individual employees or teams for their exemplary performance and contributions. This past year, we awarded 97 Achievement Awards, and 229 Spot Awards for a grand total of 326 STAR award recipients throughout campus IT — this is a 44% increase in awards from last year. Please join us in congratulating this year's STAR award recipients hightlighted below for their accomplishments.

New Employees

This list includes those who are new to One IT from Oct. 1, 2019 to Oct. 1, 2020.

Adler, Pierre
Akimov, Andrei
Alvarez, Stacey Lynn
Anderson, Hannah
Ashby, Laurina
Bair, Theron
Biamby, Giscard
Bushman, Sarah
Chambers, Eugene
Chong, Steven
Coca Chavez, Maria Cecilia
Cutter, Jason Todd
Dacey, Daniel
Didley, Steven

Doughty, Robyn Michelle
Eaneff, Stephanie
Fang, Yihsuan
Feeley, Kevin
Foster, Erin
Frus, Steven
Hall, Darrian
Hall, Erik
Handler, Dana
Hershberg, Elliot
Heuer, Michael
Hunt, Ingrid
Hunter-Zinck, Haley
Hussein, Doaa Sarah
Katsnelson, Zema
Katuri, Desi Ramananda Kishore
Kirkby, Lowry Anna
Kraal, Laurens
LaFrance, Sarah
Leskov, Pavel
Leung, Chester
Lingam, Saikiran
Little, Clinton
Long, Rebecca
Maurer, Anna
Mehta, Boris Ashutosh
Misra, Ujval
Morris, Naomi
Mukherjee, Yoshita
Parsell, Taylor
Patten, Alexandra
Pichikala, Tejavardhan
Puchakayala, Pavan Kumar Reddy
Reiwitch, Sarah
Reynaert, Gert
Rodriguez, Marisella
Rogers, Sandra Annette
Sandall, Erik
Sheridan, Brooke
Singh, Gaurav
Spaeth, Katherine
Sullivan, Steven
Swaminathan, Davis Prabhu
Tolbert, Jacob
Turner, David
Turner, Patrick
Vesely, Noah
Voge, Maianna
Whitmer, Justin
Wilder, Zachary
Wilson, Jennifer
Wong, Winnie
Xie, Peter
Yamamoto, Caitlin
Zhang, Junli

Achievement Awards FY20

Achievement Awards are designed to recognize sustained, exceptional performance and/or significant contributions over an extended period of time that represents a major portion of the employee's area of responsibilities, including performance or project goals above and beyond normal performance expectations.

Alexander, Rosia
Alipio Jocson, Alfred
Au, Dung
Barman, Kalpataru
Bellenger, Jen
Boyd, Roberto
Bradley, Amanda
Bui, Cathy
Burney, Kevin
Carl, Kimberly
Chew, Pierre
Cidda, Rakesh
Crew, Ian
Cruz, Glenn
Dinh, Louis Quang
Eltiste, Brandon
Ernst, Michael
Etling, Saskia
Fa-Kaji, Noelle
Farivar, Rebecca
Farestveit, Paul
Feria-Galicia, Joseph 

Fernandes, Loy Derick
Garcia, Martin

Gergardt, Oleksandr

Gomes, Courtney 
Greer, Betsy 
Grigsby-Standfill, Lynne
Hall, Robert
Hathorn, David
Hays, Jonathan
Herrera, Geovanni
Himed, Mohamed
Hold, Robert 
Hom, Clifton
Hunt, Ingrid
Isbelle, Blaine
Jackson, Paul
Jok, Elise
Kearns, Joseph
Keller, John
Kim, Alex
Koehmstedt, Brian
Kouba, Terri

Kraus, Andrew
Kresch, Michelle
Kwan, Leslie
Leefers, Michael
Lettieri, Robert
Li, Xing
Lin, Fang-Yu
Longhurst, Jessica
Mackley, Stephanie 
Mahoney, Philip
Maldonado, Paul
Manor, Noam
Maravilla, Alexandra 
Maurer, Anna
Mccullough, Jeffrey
Meda, Naresh

Meers, Judith
Monino, Gustavo
Morales, Jimmy
Movva, Aswan

Murray, Alison

Nadasdi, Orsolya
Nadi, Vahid
Nair, Sreekala
Nebres, Aaron
Nguyen, Isabel
O'donnell, Dawn
Obernesser, Thomas
Oddoye, Gladys
Okamura, Tracy
Ong, Veronica
Parker Susana
Parkinson, Crystal Elaine

Pathan, Suhel
Pechaitis, Marc
Percy, James
Quan, Clarina
Rogers, Erik
Satow, Bruce
Scanlan, Summer
Schluntz, Sean

Shaffer, Catherine

Shagan, Ethan
Sowden, Barbara
Stroyer, Jason
Stuhr, Mark Joseph
Tang, Thomas Zhiwei
Taylor, Jonathon
Thomas, Gary

Thomas, Sornette
Trahan, Sharon
Tran, Trang Thuy
Tripp, Thomas
Vaughn II, James Earl
Viray, Renato
Vuong, Tam
Wang, Jinyi
Willcuts, Alan
Williams, James
Wright, Brandon
Zmudosky, A.J.

Spot Awards FY20

Spot Awards are designed to recognize special contributions, as they occur throughout the year, for a specific project or task and are generally for a special contribution accomplished over a relatively short time period. A Spot Award lets employees know that someone has noticed their noteworthy contribution. At the same time, it recognizes and reinforces the behaviors and values that are important at UC Berkeley.

Adler, Pierre
Aguirre, Steve
Ahmed, Syed
Allarde, Alvin
Allen, Stephen
Alssaqaf, Haidar
Anonuevo, Justin
Armitage, Kali
Ballati, Russell
Baxter, Ronald
Beil, Noah
Bellenger, Jennifer
Bennett, Marina
Bernhardt, Robert
Blattel, Nancy
Bligh, Richard
Boggia, Tommaso
Boyd, William
Boyden, Caroline
Bradley, Patrick
Brant, Colin
Broussard, Joslyn
Brown, Darrend
Carlson, Craig 
Casal, Riza
Cava, Peter
Cervantes, Michael
Chang, Lisa
Chen, Pearl
Chen, T K
Cheng, Norman
Chennamaneni, Srilatha
Chester, Margaret
Chhay-Wade, Kim
Chiu, Finsen
Chou, Kong
Clark, Nathan
Cooper, Zane
Corral, Fernando
Cosner, John
Covens, Jennifer
Cox, Robert
Craven, Michael
Cricelli, Antonio
Crooks, Tyler
Culich, Aaron

D'souza, Sameer
Dalton, Stephen
Deshong, Richard
DiPietro, Matthew
Dixon, Melanie
Doane, Christopher
Donchishin, Iryna
Dunn, Stephanie
Duran, Gabriel
Dvorak, William
Escamilla, Rebecca
Exel, Markus
Facchiano, Andrew
Faraji, Morteza
Farris, James
Felipe, Lawrence
Feria, Sergio
Fermin, Clarissa
Fong, James
Frontiera, Patricia
Gajek, Malgorzata 
Gallardo, Maria
Gannavarapu, Anji Babu
Gazdowicz, Anna
Greco, Lucia
Hahn, Flint
Handler, Dana
Hanway, Katherine
Harris, Charles
Harwood, Jake
Hays, Jon 

Heinz, Charles
Hennig, Casey Marie
Hennings, Melissa
Hensel, Kenneth
Hill, Elizabeth Marie
Hom, Clifton

Huang, Yang
Huhn, Christine
Hussein, Doaa Sarah
Huynh, Nu Kim
Ives, John
Jackson, Colette
Johnson, Richard
Jok, Elise

Jones, Devin
Juarez, Patricia
Kaiser-Bonczkowski, Juliet
Karichedu, Radha
Kendall, Frances
Kerschen, Paul

Khu, Edwin
Kim, Vibol
Kosienski, Christopher
Kouba, Terri 

Kreutzen, Jeffrey
Kuang, Wayne
Kuo, Yu-Tin
Kwan, Joshua
Kwon, Seolim
Lake, James
Lam, Charles
Landucci, Jeffrey
Lee, Harold
Lee, Seonho Sean
Lee, Yoon Hi
Liaw, Elysia
Lin, John
Lincoln, Miles
Lloyd, Andrea
Lok, Angeline
Lorenzen, Bruce
Lovett, Ryan
Lozano, Robert
Lu, Kathleen
Lund, Dana
Ma, Xiaoyan
Madrigal, Jose Raul
Manandhar, Usha
Mankita, Isaac
Marasigan, Oliver
Martin, Cassidy
Martin, Jill
Martin, Lisa
Matsuoka, Daniel Ken
May, Daniel Brian
McCabe, Steven
McCoy, Scott
McGowan, Richard
Meister, Anna Bellows
Mejia, Ramon
Melendez-Canales, Paz
Melgar, Cesar
Mendelson, Adam
Mendoza, Javier

Miller, Jason
Minevich, Gennady
Mitola, Joseph
Morphy-Lum, Gary
Morris, Naomi

Munoz, Pedro
Nair, Sreekala
Narasimhan, Shubha
Narayan, Deepak

Narayanan, Pradeep
Nebres, Aaron
Newton, Matthew
Ng, Adam
Oddoye, Gladys 
O'Donoghue, Patricia

Ojha, Pooja
Ovaici, Nilan
Pachika, Shiva Kumar
Paffenbarger, Charles
Parks, Todd
Parsell, Taylor
Patten, Alexandra
Perez, Diane
Perri, Eli
Pham, Michael
Pickett, Sarah
Pinto, Eileen
Pothan, Sharon
Prabhakar, Dhruv
Pradhan, Pradosh Kumar
Pretzlaf, Stella
Priest, Aria
Quinonez-Skinner, Miguel
Renee, Yvette
Rez, David
Richard, Anne
Rivas, Miguelangel
Rochford, Kaylin
Roe, Taneya
Rohani, Fattaneh
Rolleri, Michael
Rossi, Bernardette
Roybal, Anthony
Ruiz, Kristina Casino
Ryan, Vina
Saika, Glenn
Sakr, Tamer
Sari, Huseyin

Schlosser, Liza
Schnur, Christa

Sheridan, Dennis
Shevtchenko, Sergey
Shioshita, John
Shirazi, Colleen
Sieteski, Sara
Silva, Robert
Soto, Ramon
Stack, Tracy Ann
Stephens Watters, Kellie
Stricker, Sarah
Su, Jenny
Sulc, Martin
Taber, Robert
Taggart, Jennifer
Tate, Robin
Thimmaiah, Santhosh Kumar
Thomas, Dillon
Thomas, Gary
Thomas, Marchella
Thompson, Stephen
Tripp, Thomas
Troyan, Kyra
Vaughn II, James Earl
Venuto, Anthony
Wagner, Jeremy
Waldman, Barry Adam
Wang, Hong
Wang, Jin
Washington, Christopher
Watson, Greig
Watters, Kellie

Weber, Lisa
Weekly, Philip
Wilson, Richard
Wind, Seyon
Wong, Angela
Wong, David
Wong, Kevin
Wong, Winnie
Wood, Brian
Worthen, Chris
Wu, Yi Chieh
Wuorenmaa, John
Zeglin, Margarita
Zhou, Yuchai